Speaker: Dan Shaw

Co-Founder and CTO @NodeSource

Dan Shaw (dshaw) is Co-Founder and CTO of NodeSource, the Enterprise Node Company, and is dedicated to helping improve and grow the Node Community. He is a veteran of numerous Node.js startups including Voxer, Spreecast and Storify. Dan has extensive experience building large-scale, realtime systems with Node.js and has been building production services using Node since v0.2. Dan is a frequent speaker, host of the NodeUp podcast and organizer of events like EnterpriseJS and the SFNode meetup. Prior to Node, Dan worked in large-scale government contracts for Defense, Health Care and Education.Dan Shaw (dshaw) is Co-Founder and CTO of NodeSource, the Enterprise Node Company, and is dedicated to helping improve and grow the Node Community. He is a veteran of numerous Node.js startups including Voxer, Spreecast and Storify. Dan has extensive experience building large-scale, realtime systems with Node.js and has been building production services using Node since v0.2. Dan is a frequent speaker, host of the NodeUp podcast and organizer of events like EnterpriseJS and the SFNode meetup. Prior to Node, Dan worked in large-scale government contracts for Defense, Health Care and Education.

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Talk: The Node.js Ecosystem in Perspective

Track: Next Generation Web Standards, Frameworks, and Techniques

Location: Seacliff ABC

Day of week: Monday

Duration: 5:25pm - 6:15pm

Node.js was created 7 years ago by Ryan Dahl to increase the performance of web application development. Node.js was born in the era of GitHub which led the project's phenomenal contribution story. It has superseded jQuery as the most important JavaScript project ever. Node.js is far from being the first server-side JavaScript platform, but nothing prior has had anywhere close to the impact it has. Node.js is rapidly transforming application development from an environment dominated by Java to one dominated by JavaScript.

Many novel choices were made along the way. Node.js ships with "batteries included". Node.js was built with a very liberal license. Node.js has no standard library and encourages userland experimentation. Node.js chose to standardize on a single package management solution with npm. Node.js is fully cross-platform. Node.js applications run everywhere (take that Java!). All of this comes together to create an extraordinary ecosystem.

Dan Shaw will explore the implications of these decisions and how they have impacted the Node.js Ecosystem. 7 years on, Node.js is everywhere with a massive user base and the largest package registry ever. And yet, there's still so much to do.

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Tuesday Nov 8

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Real world lessons & prepping for JDK9. Reactive code in Java today, Performance/Optimization, Where Unsafe is heading, & JVM compile interface.
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Overviews and lessons learned from companies that have implemented their Big Data use-cases in the Cloud
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Lessons/stories on optimizing the deployment pipeline
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Native languages, kernel bypass, tooling - make the most of your hardware
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